 | James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls...forewarn'd Will tread aside and let the reptile live." It has already been hinted at, in the second chapter, that in rating the happiness of a people, or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets font upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls...forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls...evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forevvarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. 2 The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls...evening in the public path, But he that has humanity, forewarned, • Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. Cowper's Task, b. 6. CURSES. Oh ! I will... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense, Yel wantuur sensihilily.) the man A\ ho needlessly sets foot upon a worm, An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path .' But he that hath Immunity, forewarn'd, 'VN nl tread aside and let the reptile live. 2. The creeping vermin loathsome... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 σελίδες
...foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at ev'ning iu the public patn ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charg'd perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls...forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charg'd perhaps with venom, that intrudes A visiter... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 248 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls...forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 252 σελίδες
...polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls...forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1825 - 176 σελίδες
...Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. For they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free... | |
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I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man ,' Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ;... 
